Notes on Polish Student Life, by Reuel K. Wilson, THE HARPERS MONTHLY

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Notes on Polish Student Life

by Reuel K. Wilson

The Harpers Monthly, October 1961, pp. 164-167

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      3. All the Summer Days by Ned Calmer
      4. The Dark and the Light by Elio Vittorini
      5. A Nation of Sheep by William J. Lederer
      6. Foreign Aid: Our Tragic Experiment by Thomas S. Loeber
      7. Communication Among Social Bees by Martin Lindauer
    19. Music in the Round by "Discus", pp. 102-103
    20. Jazz Notes by Eric Larrabee, pp. 104-106
    21. Cover by Ben Robinson
  8. [+]
    August 1961 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 6-10
    2. The Editor's Easy Chair by John Fischer, pp. 11-15
    3. After Hours by Russell Lynes, pp. 16-20
    4. America Under Pressure by Adlai E. Stevenson, pp. 21-24
    5. How Not to Build a Ball Park by Allan Temko, pp. 25-28
    6. Your Unknown Heirs by Murray Teigh Bloom, pp. 29-33
    7. Robinson Crusoe in Florida by Jan de Hartog, pp. 34-40
    8. McNamara and His Enemies by Joseph Kraft, pp. 41-48
    9. How to Play the Unemployment-insurance Game by Seth Levine, pp. 49-53
    10. The Man Who Doubted by Jack Cope, pp. 54-57
    11. A Psychiatrist's Song by Hilary Corke, pp. 58-62
    12. Our National Talent for Offending People by D.H. Radler, pp. 63-70
    13. A Matter of Motive by John D. Rosenberg, pp. 71-73
    14. Art and Society by Kenneth Clark, pp. 74-76
    15. Voyage by Samuel Menashe, pp. 77-82
    16. Public & Personal by William S. White, pp. 83-85
    17. [+]
      The New Books by Stanley Kunitz, pp. 86-90 - 16 Reviews
      1. The Orphic Voice by Elizabeth Sewell
      2. Poetry and Experience by Archibald MacLeish
      3. Collected Poems by Robert Graves
      4. Summoned by Bells by John Betjeman
      5. Collected Poems, 1930-1960 by Richard Eberhart
      6. The Woman at the Washington Zoo by Randall Jarrell
      7. New and Selected Poems by Howard Nemerov
      8. The Distances by Charles Olson
      9. The Poem Itself by Stanley Burnshaw
      10. Homer: The Odyssey by Robert Fitzgerald and Homer
      11. The Complete Poems of Cavafy by Constantine Cavafy
      12. Poems by George Seferis
      13. Six Poets of Modern Greece by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
      14. Racine: Phaedra by Robert Lowell and Jean Racine
      15. Chronique by Saint-John Perse
      16. Quake, Quake, Quake by Paul Dehn
    18. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 91-93 - 8 Reviews
      1. The Delights of Detection by Jacques Barzun
      2. Best Detective Stories of the Year by Brett Halliday
      3. The Wycherly Woman by Ross Macdonald
      4. One for My Dame by Jack Webb
      5. Barbarian's Country by Jean Hougron
      6. Lizzie Borden: The Untold Story by Edward D. Radin
      7. Out of My League by George Plimpton
      8. Listen, the Red-Eyed Vireo by Milton White
    19. Music in the Round by "Discus", p. 94
    20. Jazz Notes by Eric Larrabee, pp. 95-98
    21. Cover by Charles Goslin
  9. [+]
    September 1961 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-9
    2. The Editor's Easy Chair by John Fischer, pp. 10-20
    3. After Hours by Robert Kotlowitz, pp. 21-24
    4. Kennedy's Economists by Hobart Rowen, pp. 25-32
    5. On Both Your Houses by Sylvia Wright, pp. 33-36
    6. Violence in the City Streets by Jane Jacobs, pp. 37-43
    7. Seven Poems by Boris Pasternak and Robert Lowell, pp. 44-47
    8. Mr. Future by Leo Rosten, pp. 48-57
    9. Jules Feiffer and the Almost-In-Group by Julius Novick, pp. 58-62
    10. The Peace Corps' Secret Mission by Benjamin DeMott, pp. 63-66
    11. The Husking by Dilys Laing, pp. 67-68
    12. The Invisible Aborigine by Eugene Burdick, pp. 69-76
    13. Why We Don't Wipe Out Polio by Leonard Engel, pp. 77-79
    14. The Thread by Denise Levertov, p. 80
    15. Canada's Luxury Ghost Town by Fred Bodsworth, pp. 81-91
    16. Public & Personal by William S. White, pp. 92-95
    17. [+]
      The New Books by Irving Kristol, pp. 96-100 - 8 Reviews
      1. Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too? by John W. Gardner
      2. The Purpose of American Politics by Hans J. Morgenthau
      3. We Hold These Truths by John Courtney Murray
      4. Obligation and the Body Politic by Joseph Tussman
      5. The Semi-Sovereign People by E.E. Schattschneider
      6. American Suffrage: From Property to Democracy, 1760-1860 by Chilton Williamson
      7. The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy by Lee Benson
      8. The Federalist by Gottfried Dietze
    18. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 101-103 - 9 Reviews
      1. A Season of Mists by Honor Tracy
      2. The Foxglove Saga by Auberon Waugh
      3. Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
      4. The Grove by Burton Bernstein
      5. The Small Room by May Sarton
      6. Of Music and Music-Making by Bruno Walter
      7. Everybody's Guide to Music by William Hugh Miller
      8. The Jazz Life by Nat Hentoff
      9. A History of Modern Music by Paul Collaer
    19. Music in the Round by "Discus", p. 104
    20. Jazz Notes by Eric Larrabee, pp. 105-108
    21. Cover by Janet Halverson
  10. [+]
    October 1961 Issue = 33 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 6-11
    2. The Easy Chair by Henry C. Wallich, pp. 12-29
    3. After Hours by Donald Barthelme and Russell Lynes, pp. 30-36
    4. A Way Out of the Welfare Mess by Edgar May, pp. 37-42
    5. My Escape from the CIA by Hughes Rudd, pp. 43-47
    6. Houston's Superpatriots by Willie Morris, pp. 48-56
    7. A Bird on the Mesa by William Eastlake, pp. 57-63
    8. The Uncanny World of Plasma Physics by John L. Chapman, pp. 64-68
    9. "The New Thing" in Jazz by Martin Williams, pp. 69-75
    10. Corsica Out of Season by Wallace Stegner, pp. 76-79
    11. The Proper Tool Will Do the Job by Norman Halliday, pp. 80-81
    12. The Culture Monopoly at Lincoln Center by Herbert Kupferberg, pp. 82-87
    13. Variations on a Lorca Form by Ruth Krauss, pp. 88-96
    14. Our Friends the Russians by Henrietta Fort Holland, p. 97
    15. Public & Personal by William S. White, pp. 98-103
    16. [+]
      The New Books by Alfred Kazin, pp. 104-110 - 7 Reviews
      1. The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
      2. Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin by George F. Kennan
      3. The Conscience of the Revolution by Robert Vincent Daniels
      4. Three Intellectuals in Politics by James Joll
      5. The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg
      6. Reconsiderations by Arnold J. Toynbee
      7. Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt
    17. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 111-115 - 7 Reviews
      1. Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
      2. When My Girl Comes Home by V.S. Pritchett
      3. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
      4. Kidnap: The Story of the Lindbergh Case by George Waller#2
      5. Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait by W.H. Auden and Vincent Van Gogh
      6. The Will Rogers Book by Paula McSpadden Love
      7. Last Things First by Sydney J. Harris
    18. Music in the Round by "Discus", pp. 116-117
    19. Jazz Notes by Eric Larrabee, p. 118
    20. Contents, pp. 119-120
    21. The Next Thirty Years in the Colleges by Christopher Jencks, pp. 121-128
    22. Sex: The Problem Colleges Evade by Milton I. Levine, M.D. and Maya Pines, pp. 129-132
    23. The Young Negro Rebels by Charlotte Devree, pp. 133-138
    24. Eager Swarthmore by David Boroff, pp. 139-146
    25. The Wasted Classroom by Nathan Glazer, pp. 147-153
    26. The Examination by W.D. Snodgrass, pp. 154-155
    27. The Mirage of College Politics by Philip Rieff, pp. 156-163
    28. Notes on Polish Student Life by Reuel K. Wilson, pp. 164-167
    29. The New Campus Magazines by Richard Chase, pp. 168-172
    30. God in the Colleges by Michael Novak, pp. 173-176
    31. Chance What Comes by Christopher Z. Hobson, pp. 177-178
    32. What They'll Die for in Houston by Marjorie K. McCorquodale, pp. 179-184
    33. Cover by Charles Goslin
  11. [+]
    November 1961 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-11
    2. The Editor's Easy Chair by John Fischer, pp. 12-25
    3. After Hours by J.A. Maxtone Graham, pp. 26-32
    4. How to Destroy the Churches by Edmond Cahn, pp. 33-38
    5. The Daily Globe by Howard Nemerov, p. 39
    6. The Game of Words by Louis B. Salomon, pp. 40-42
    7. The Comeback of the State Department by Joseph Kraft, pp. 43-49
    8. Rival by Phyllis Rose, p. 50
    9. Howard University: Campus and Cause by Milton Viorst, pp. 51-60
    10. Private Eye to Industry by Morton M. Hunt, pp. 61-67
    11. In the Company of Runners by Richard Rogin, pp. 68-72
    12. Henri Cartier-Bresson on the Art of Photography by Yvonne Baby and Henri Cartier-Bresson, pp. 73-78
    13. India Experiments with Sterilization by Rowland Evans, Jr., pp. 79-88
    14. The Last Summer by David Howarth, pp. 89-92
    15. To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph by Anne Sexton, p. 93
    16. Up to Our Necks in Soft, White Suds by Maya Pines, pp. 94-97
    17. Public & Personal by William S. White, pp. 98-108
    18. [+]
      The New Books by Paul Pickrel, pp. 109-123 - 11 Reviews
      1. The Blue of Capricorn by Eugene Burdick
      2. Adrift in Soho by Colin Wilson
      3. The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson
      4. The Whisperers by Robert Nicolson
      5. A Passion in Rome by Morley Callaghan
      6. Dangerfield by Barnaby Conrad
      7. False Entry by Hortense Calisher
      8. A New Life by Bernard Malamud
      9. Night Song by John Alfred Williams
      10. Scarred by Bruce Lowery
      11. Love in Question by Rosalie Packard
    19. [+]
      The Master Journalist of American Fiction by Louis Auchincloss, pp. 124-127 - 1 Review
      1. Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark Schorer
    20. Music in the Round by "Discus", pp. 128-132
    21. Jazz Notes by Eric Larrabee, pp. 133-136
  12. [+]
    December 1961 Issue = 19 Articles
    1. Letters, pp. 4-14
    2. The Editor's Easy Chair by John Fischer, pp. 15-19
    3. After Hours by Noel Perrin and Anonymous, pp. 20-24
    4. The Strange Romance Between John L. Lewis and Cyrus Eaton by Nat Caldwell and Gene S. Graham, pp. 25-27
    5. Her Husband by Ted Hughes, pp. 28-32
    6. Pavane for a Dead Doll by Ogden Nash, p. 33
    7. What Chicago Could Be Proud Of by Elinor Richey, pp. 34-39
    8. The Future, If Any, of Comedy by James Thurber, pp. 40-45
    9. Galbraith in India by Kusum Nair, pp. 46-48
    10. Burn It! by Robert Graves, pp. 49-55
    11. The Uses of the Moon by Arthur C. Clarke, pp. 56-62
    12. The Cult of Personality Comes to the White House by William G. Carleton, pp. 63-68
    13. Guinean Diary by W.E. Bullard, pp. 69-78
    14. A Blocked Feed by Nigel Dennis, pp. 79-83
    15. Public & Personal by William S. White, pp. 84-86
    16. The New Books by Leo Steinberg, pp. 87-101
    17. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 102-108 - 23 Reviews
      1. The End of It by Mitchell Goodman
      2. The Moon and the Thorn by B.J. Chute
      3. David, from Where He Was Lying by Barrington Kaye
      4. A Matter of Life and Death by Virgilia Peterson
      5. The Beer Can by the Highway by John A. Kouwenhoven
      6. A Shooting Star by Wallace Stegner
      7. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
      8. Waters of the New World by Jan de Hartog
      9. Dag Hammarskjold: Custodian of the Brushfire Peace by Joseph P. Lash
      10. The Tiber Was Silver by Michael Novak
      11. The Faith of a Heretic by Walter Kaufmann
      12. Imitations by Robert Lowell
      13. The Struggle for Algeria by Joseph Kraft
      14. Majesty and Mischief: A Mixed Tribute to F.D.R. by William S. White
      15. Campus USA by David Boroff
      16. The Darkening Glass by John D. Rosenberg
      17. Humor from Harper's by John Fischer and Lucy Donaldson
      18. Reflections of a Jacobite by Louis Auchincloss
      19. The Happy Critic, and Other Essays by Mark Van Doren
      20. Some Reflections on Genius, and Other Essays by Russell Brain
      21. Rural Free by Rachel Peden
      22. String Too Short to Be Saved by Donald Hall
      23. My Wilderness: East to Katahdin by William O. Douglas
    18. Music in the Round by "Discus", pp. 109-111
    19. Jazz Notes by Eric Larrabee, pp. 112-114
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8. [+]
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  Issues of 1979 = 12 Issues, 243 Articles
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  Issues of 1980 = 11 Issues, 219 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1981 = 12 Issues, 231 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1982 = 12 Issues, 190 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1983 = 12 Issues, 211 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1984 = 12 Issues, 298 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1985 = 12 Issues, 255 Articles
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  Issues of 1986 = 12 Issues, 294 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1987 = 12 Issues, 263 Articles
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  Issues of 1989 = 12 Issues, 251 Articles
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  Issues of 1990 = 11 Issues, 220 Articles
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  Issues of 1991 = 8 Issues, 151 Articles
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  Issues of 1992 = 12 Issues, 255 Articles
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  Issues of 1993 = 9 Issues, 183 Articles
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  Issues of 1994 = 11 Issues, 224 Articles
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  Issues of 1995 = 12 Issues, 221 Articles
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  Issues of 1999 = 12 Issues, 218 Articles
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  Issues of 2000 = 11 Issues, 178 Articles
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  Issues of 2004 = 10 Issues, 180 Articles
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  Issues of 2005 = 12 Issues, 218 Articles
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  Issues of 2006 = 11 Issues, 174 Articles
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